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eagle plume to the back. There were three such robes, and it was used 

 by the old men in dancing. Sore-tail himself used a sharp-pointed cane 

 in dancing; he painted it red and tied to it the tail of an old striped eagle. 

 For the women he prepared four eagle plumes to be worn under the first 

 dress. He told them they would acquire property through wearing them. 

 They had to wear red dresses, on the shoulder blades there were rings 

 of blue bead work, and sometimes between the rings a beaded eagle. 

 On the left shoulder was an eagle claw on a string. All wore abalone 

 earrings. 1 The bracelet for the right hand was made of large cut beads 

 mixed with abalone shells; that for the left hand was composed of 

 greenish beads, one abalone shell, and one white shell, such as is some- 

 times worn in the ear. The women's breast ornaments consisted of a 

 small package of Tobacco with beads, abalone shells, and elk teeth 

 hanging down. Round the ankles they wore white beads and round the 

 shinbone also a band of such beads. The middle of the moccasin was 

 decorated with an eagle claw, on each side of which were two rings of 

 beads. Sore-tail made a necklace of beads with an elk tooth hanging 

 down; the men had a necklace with a big shell and white bead in the 

 middle. All had wristlets of eagle thumb claws. 



To the first four men he adopted Sore-tail gave whistles. The 

 dress of the leader in the planting ceremony was fringed at the bottom.; 

 it was decorated with four rings of beads, one above the other, both in 

 front and in the back, and with an eagle plume in the back. The hair 

 was tied in front and painted red; the skin of a black buffalo calf with 

 the hair was worn as a robe. 2 The leader's blanket is said to have been 

 acquired from the founder on the occasion of the first planting. Then 

 Sore-tail likewise tied one rattle to a woman's belt and another to a 

 woman's dress about the thigh. On the same occasion a woman paid 

 Sore-tail a horse loaded with gifts for the abalone and white-shell 

 necklace. 



The women's medicine bags were of elkhide, painted with ground 

 paint, fringed all over and with blue beads along the edges; in the middle 

 there was a cross of blue beads. 



My informant said that she belonged both to this and the Yellow 

 Tobacco chapter, but because of the paucity of members in the latter 

 she plants with the Eagles. She considers herself a member of both 

 because when she was adopted both chapters sang songs. 



Subsequently the informant spoke of an abalone ring in the right ear, and a white shell one in 

 the left. 



2 It is not clear whether this last statement refers only to the leader. 



